Did Reddit just close old.reddit.com?

12 points by distortedsignal 4 months ago

► curl https://old.reddit.com/ -v

* Host old.reddit.com:443 was resolved.

...

> GET / HTTP/2

> Host: old.reddit.com

> User-Agent: curl/8.9.1

> Accept: /

>

* Request completely sent off

< HTTP/2 500

< content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

...

< content-length: 300

<

<html>

  <head>

    <title>reddit broke!</title>

  </head>
vs

► curl https://www.reddit.com/ -v

* Host www.reddit.com:443 was resolved.

...

> GET / HTTP/2

> Host: www.reddit.com

> User-Agent: curl/8.9.1

> Accept: /

>

* Request completely sent off

< HTTP/2 302

...

< content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8

...

< content-length: 412

<

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html>

  <head>

    <title>302 Found</title>

  </head>
...
gnabgib 4 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43135007

  • distortedsignal 4 months ago

    Saw that after posting this. I feel like a dumb.

    • aqueueaqueue 4 months ago

      That account is a bot. Not an insult as it is a useful bot. But that is why they spotted it.

      • gnabgib 4 months ago

        I'm not a bot. Obviously a bot would be programmed to say that, but they wouldn't make my typos.

        • aqueueaqueue 4 months ago

          I suspect you are a human that also has a bot running on the same account name. If not you are using a tool. If not you are an avid digital archaeologist.

          • gnabgib 4 months ago

            You should probably allay @hlloyd1925's fears you were accusing them. No automation, just sometimes paying attention.

      • hlloyd1925 4 months ago

        No, just a new user.

        • aqueueaqueue 4 months ago

          Didn't mean you, sorry for the confusion.

    • consumer451 4 months ago

      Don't feel like a dumb.

      I am super paranoid about losing old.reddit. When I saw the "you broke reddit" page, this was also my first thought.

    • lowlevel 4 months ago

      I for one don’t blame you for panic posting … so much is turning to shit these days…

Rzor 4 months ago

That's awful. I only access Reddit through there. Let's hope it comes back. Back in 2023 Huffmann said that it would stay, but I guess that could somewhat go against their plan of inserting paywalls? We'll see.

>P.S. old.reddit.com isn't going anywhere, and explicit content is still allowed on Reddit as long as it abides by our content policy.

distortedsignal 4 months ago

Looks like it's back. False alarm, everybody.

  • aqueueaqueue 4 months ago

    Reddit down? Must be a day ending in y.